This particular Japanese garden was created in 1996 by a local man, Peter Bridges, and was included with the new administration block as an area of quiet contemplation. Japanese Garden Society members discovered it in 2009 in an overgrown state…
Created over 100 years ago, our Japanese Garden is renowned for it’s authenticity around the world, including Japan. Features include a Shinto Shrine, Tea House, Flying Goose Bridge, lanterns, Almond-Eye Bridge and a mound representing a snow-capped Mount Fuji…
Alan Clements and Eve Rotstein of the Tibet Relief Fund take a long boat journey from Dibrugarh to Pasighat on the Brahmaputra river. A long Jeep journey take sthem to the fr north of the upper Siang District close to the Chinese border…
My visit to Tibetan settlements in Arunachal Pradesh in 2002 delivering aid to Tibetan refugees funded by the Lottery Project included a visit to Tenzingang settlement. To my surprise I stumbled on a monastery that I found intriguing…
Alan Clements and Liz Banks, trustees of the Tibet Relief Fund, interview the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, following their visit to the Tibetan settlements of Miao and Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh. Lottery project funding was donated to these settlements for tractors, an old people’s home and healthcare…
In 1994 My ex- wife Elizabeth and I booked a trip to Tibet from Katmandu, Nepal. We joined a group of eight other men and women and had two vehicles, a ten-seater bus and a very rugged large lorry with all the chains and ropes and equipment that one would need for a tough overland journey…
We recently had a visit to the garden by Love Your Garden producer and crew, to film the garden. The shoot took most of the day and involved a chat around the garden with Alan Clements and Katie Rushworth…
In our gardens, simple observation teaches us about the beauty of nature. Birth, death, renewal, harmony and balance are all key features of gardening. Following the seasons, summer becomes autumn and then winter and moves back to spring, in the cycle that is life…
A talk that explores our interest in gardening and the deeper satisfaction that we can get from creating our own special natural sacred space. Alan shares his own spiritual journey as his garden, Cascades Gardens, has developed over the years…
